Embracing the illusionary powers of magicians Harry Houdini, David Copperfield and Criss Angel, American companies increasingly use magic to make jobs disappear in the U.S. and then reappear overseas. Image via Wikipedia For several years, economists have blamed the precipitous loss of U.S. jobs on a black magician’s cape that went missing from a classified… Continue reading
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It Takes a Comedian to Save a 9/11 Bill.
Jon Stewart Snakes Clogged Congressional Pipes in Passage of 9/11 Bill. After a Republican filibuster on Dec. 10, the 9/11 responders bill sank to the bottom of the Congressional crapper against a mammoth clog of bullshit left by Republicans who felt that the $7.4 billion price tag was too high. Yet, Republicans had no problem… Continue reading
Secret CIA Program Found in Cheney’s Pants.
Image via Wikipedia More dusty words from the back of the blog shelf. Sun July 12, 2009 (Reuters) – Cheney hid CIA program from Congress: senator My spin on the article: Limited public appearances while Cheney was still in office tied to secret program. Earlier today, an anonymous source told the Washington Retro Times,… Continue reading
Palin’s Unabridged Words to Nowhere.
Image by joestump via Flickr YOU SAY MOSQUE. I SAY MOSQUITO. What’s that buzzing noise? It’s Sarah Palin‘s words swarming from my TV set and circling my head. Yes, Sarah Palin is back in the news because there’s a new controversy in town – the ground zero mosque – a wedge issue she can really… Continue reading
Companies Hiring Monkeys Instead of the Unemployed
Image via Wikipedia OUT OF WORK? Well, now you may be out of luck unless you love a good swing on the vine. Back in 2009, companies began hiring trained monkeys to fill empty job slots instead of unemployed workers, a practice that Jillian Hand Human Resources Manager for LockJaw Industries has found to… Continue reading
Louisiana Fishermen Catch The Oil Vapors.
Image via Wikipedia Eau De Petrol. If you were to ask BP chief executive, Tony Hayward, what was making New Orleans residents sick, he would tell you that it was food poisoning. Regardless of the fact that fisherman James Wunstell of Galliano stated in an affidavit that . . . . . . he… Continue reading
Sarah Palin Magazine: Straight from the moose’s mouth to your bleeding ears.
Image via Wikipedia Oprah, she ain’t! Sarah Palin Magazine – Coming soon to a newsstand near you. (They still have those?) The only magazine with run-on sentences and fictionalized accounts of the facts. “The genesis of it was really simple,” said Steve LeGrice, the publisher and editor of Imagine That. “We’re up here in New… Continue reading
While passengers barbecue on Labadee Beach, Haiti, the dead burn in Port-au-Prince.
Cruise ships still find a Haitian berth | World news | The Guardian You can travel to Haiti to help the relief effort by military cargo plane, coast guard, or cruise ship, although military and coast guard vessels don’t enjoy the same amenities as a Royal Caribbean Cruise luxury liner. Sixty miles from Haiti’s… Continue reading
Cheney Takes Aim at Justice Department – Misses
Every one ducks for cover in the senate commissary.
Sheriff Launches Beer with Queer Program in Alabama
The Baffletown County Sheriff’s Department takes Obama’s beer sit down seriously. Ben When, a reporter from the Flummox Daily News, sat down with Sheriff Dipschitz and asked him about his Beer with a Queer Program. DIPSCHITZ Yessur, I like what the President’s doing even though I don’t believe he’s really the President. He was born… Continue reading